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As Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former attorney, testified on Capitol Hill Wednesday, bars and restaurants across the capital city turned their TV’s to the hourslong Congressional hearing. (Feb. 27)

A blast of winter weather hit Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, closing federal offices and local schools, disrupting air travel, and making roads hazardous for motorists. Tourists, however, didn’t seem to mind. (Feb. 20)

The father of a Parkland shooting victim is seeking to spur change in American gun laws through art. Joined by politicians and local students, Manuel Oliver presents one of his “Walls of Demand” murals at a Washington, DC gallery ahead of the one-year anniversary of the Florida school shooting.

When the Sugarhill Gang recorded “Rapper’s Delight” — the first commercially successful song to include rapping — they had no idea that it would help launch hip-hop as a global phenomenon. Forty years later, Master Gee, Grandmaster Caz and Melle Mel revisit the evolution of the movement as a hip-hop museum opens in Washington, DC.

(23 Jan 2019) Several dozen protesters rallied outside the federal courthouse in Washington, DC to support Iran’s Press TV anchorwoman Marzieh Hashemi, who is reportedly being held by U.S. federal authorities as a ‘material witness.’ (Jan. 23)